Greek carrier Aegean Airlines is launching its first direct flight between Athens and Skopje today, November 1, amid a thaw in relations after a deal to rename FYROM “North Macedonia.”
FYROM’s Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani plans to be on the first flight from Athens to Skopje on Thursday evening, as he will be in Athens for discussions with Greek officials, his office said.
TAV Airports, which operates the Skopje airport, announced Greece’s Aegean Airlines will execute the twice-weekly flights.
Skopje and Athens had a direct air connection between 2003-2007, but it was stopped after the Balkan country’s previous government named the airport after Greece’s ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great of Macedonia.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his current left-wing government renamed the airport Skopje International Airport in February as a goodwill gesture to Greece.
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